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Terence Martin Griffiths (16Template:NbspOctober 1947Template:Snd1Template:NbspDecember 2024) was a Welsh professional snooker player, coach and pundit. After winning several amateur titles, including the Welsh Amateur Championship in 1975 and back-to-back English Amateur Championships in 1977 and 1978, Griffiths turned professional in June 1978 at the age of 30.

In his second professional tournament, he qualified for the 1979 World Snooker Championship. He reached the final of the event where he defeated Dennis Taylor by 24 Template:Cuegloss to 16. This was only the second time a qualifier had won the World Snooker Championship, after Alex Higgins in 1972; only Shaun Murphy in 2005, and Zhao Xintong in 2025 has since emulated the achievement. In 1988, Griffiths again reached the final of the competition. He was tied with Steve Davis, 8–8, but lost the match 11–18.

Griffiths reached at least the quarter-finals of the World Championship for nine consecutive years, from 1984 to 1992. He also won the Masters in 1980 and the UK Championship in 1982, completing snooker's Triple Crown. Griffiths was runner-up at the Masters three times and reached the final of the 1989 European Open, where he lost the Template:Cuegloss to John Parrott.

Although he also won several other tournaments, Griffiths's determination to match his rival Davis led to changes in technique which commentators said cost him his natural flair for playing. He retired from the professional tour in 1996 to become the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association's director of coaching. During his coaching career, he worked with leading players including Stephen Hendry, Mark Williams and Ding Junhui. Griffiths died in December 2024, aged 77.

Early yearsEdit

Griffiths was born in Llanelli on 16 October 1947.<ref name="TIMESOBE">Template:Cite news</ref>Template:Sfn He was admitted to a grammar school but was expelled for truancy and became a student at a secondary modern school, where he played rugby union with future Welsh national-team members Phil Bennett and Derek Quinnell.Template:Sfn Griffiths began playing snooker when he was 14. After leaving school, he worked in a coal mine and became the youngest winner of the Llanelli and District snooker championship at age 16.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Griffiths subsequently began working as a bus conductor, a job which gave him more time to practise.Template:Sfn He later worked as a postman<ref name="1979: Griffiths creates miracle">Template:Cite news</ref> and as an insurance salesman.Template:Sfn

At age 17, Griffiths won the West Wales snooker championship.Template:Sfn When he was 18 and working as a bus conductor, he met Annette, and the couple married in 1969.<ref name="MWWS">Template:Cite news</ref>Template:Sfn They had their first son, Wayne, a year-and-a-half after their wedding, and their other son, Darren, two years later.<ref name="MWWS" /> Griffiths compiled his first century break at age 24, the first year he entered the Welsh Amateur Championship (where he was runner-up).Template:Sfn Griffiths played in the amateur home internationals fourteen times, winning twelve of his matches; after winning the Welsh Amateur Championship in 1975, he reached the quarter-finals of the 1976 World Amateur Snooker Championship.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn He won the English Amateur Championship in 1977 by defeating Sid Hood 13–3 in the final, and retained the title in 1978 by winning 13–6 against Joe Johnson.<ref name="NEWPRO"/>Template:Sfn

Professional careerEdit

1978–1982Edit

Griffiths became a professional player on 1 June 1978 after he was accepted as a member by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) at its meeting during the 1978 World Snooker Championship.<ref name="NEWPRO">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Anticipating his acceptance as a professional, Snooker Scene said in May 1978 that "his power screws and long potting are second to no one's ... it will not be in the least surprising, if very soon he becomes a serious challenger for snooker's top professional titles."<ref name="INCHPRO">Template:Cite magazine</ref>

In his first professional match, qualifying for the 1978 UK Championship, Griffiths lost 8–9 to Rex Williams after leading 8–2. Williams took a 2–1 lead; Griffiths won the next seven frames, and Williams took the following seven. In the Template:Cuegloss, Griffiths rushed when potting the Template:Cuegloss and went Template:Cuegloss, a Template:Cuegloss shot. Williams later potted the pink for the victory.<ref name="UK1978">Template:Cite magazine</ref> After qualifying for the 1979 World Championship by eliminating Bernard Bennett 9–2 (from 0–2 behind) and Jim Meadowcroft 9–6 (from 6–6),<ref name="1979WCQ">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Griffiths defeated the previous year's runner-up Perrie Mans 13–8 in the first round and Alex Higgins 13–12 in the quarter-finals.Template:Sfn After beating Eddie Charlton 19–17 in a long semi-final which finished at 1:40 am,Template:Sfn Griffiths told interviewer David Vine: "I'm in the final now, you know."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the final, he faced Dennis Taylor, who had been a professional since 1973 and was also playing in his first World Championship final.Template:Sfn The match was close for the first four of the six Template:Cuegloss and level at 15–15 before Griffiths took a 17–16 lead and won 24–16,Template:Sfn becoming world champion at his first attemptTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn in his second tournament as a professional.<ref name="WSTTG" /> The result saw him placed eighth in the Snooker world rankings 1979/1980.Template:Sfn He was the second player to win the championship after playing in qualifying competition (after Higgins in 1972), and the first to win it at the Crucible in Sheffield, the venue for the championship since 1977, as a qualifier. By 2021, the only other player to achieve this was Shaun Murphy in 2005.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Griffiths reached the final of the 1979 Canadian Open the following season, losing 16–17 to Cliff Thorburn,Template:Sfn and was part of the Welsh team that won the inaugural World Cup of snooker; Ray Reardon, Doug Mountjoy and Griffiths defeated England 14–3 in the final.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> At the end of 1979, Griffiths faced John Virgo in the UK Championship final. Virgo had been penalised two frames for arriving late to a session (not realising that the start time had been moved up as requested by the television broadcasters), which reduced his lead to 9–11. When the scores were 11–11, Griffiths offered to split the prize money. Virgo declined and went on to win the match, 14–13.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Griffiths was named the BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year for 1979,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and was the subject for a This Is Your Life episode the following year.Template:Sfn He won the 1980 Masters, defeating Alex Higgins 9–5 in front of 2,323 spectators (a record crowd for a UK snooker event) at the Wembley Conference Centre after compiling a break of 131 to win the decisive frame.<ref name="MAST80">Template:Cite magazine</ref> It was his first Masters appearance and his only Masters title, although he was runner-up at the event three times in the subsequent four years.<ref name="MAST80" />Template:Sfn He also won the 1980 Irish Masters, defeating Mountjoy 10–9 in the final.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Defending champion at the 1980 World Championship, Griffiths lost the first seven frames against Davis in his first match and ended the first session trailing 1–7.<ref name="TIMES25APR">Template:Cite news</ref> Davis won the opening frame of the second session to extend his lead to 8–1, and had a seven-frame lead again at 10–3 before Griffiths won three frames to end the session 6–10 behind.<ref name="TIMES26APR">Template:Cite news</ref> In the third session, Griffiths won the first four frames to level at 10–10; Davis won the next three for a 13–10 victory, which included a 116 break in the 22nd frame.<ref name="GRAUN28APR">Template:Cite news</ref> With this first-round defeat, Griffiths became the first victim of the so-called "Crucible curse", a term later adopted to describe the failure of any first-time champion to defend their title at the venue.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He moved up three places in the annual rankings, to fifth for 1980/1981.Template:Sfn

Griffiths and his Wales teammates retained the 1980 World Challenge Cup,Template:Sfn and he again won the Irish Masters in 1981 before losing to eventual winner Davis in the quarter-finals of the 1981 World Snooker Championship.Template:Sfn Griffiths lost 3–16 to Davis in the 1981 UK Championship final, the first of five finals in consecutive events contested by the pair.Template:Sfn Griffiths won two of the five, winning 9–8 on the final black in the deciding frame of the 1982 Classic after Davis had recovered from 3–8 to 8–8.Template:Sfn He also won the 1982 Irish Masters, his third consecutive title at the event, defeating Davis 9–5 in the final.Template:Sfn After Tony Knowles's surprise 10–1 win over Davis in the first round of the 1982 World Championship, Griffiths became the bookmakers' favourite for the title. However, Griffiths also exited in the first round, losing 6–10 to Willie Thorne.Template:Sfn Despite this, he advanced again in the rankings, achieving third place, which would be his highest-ever ranking, in 1981/1982.Template:Sfn He won the 1982 UK Championship at the end of the year, defeating Alex Higgins 16–15 in the final.Template:Sfn

1983–1989Edit

Griffiths won several further invitational events, including Pot Black in 1984, and the 1984 Malaysian Masters (where he topped a round-robin group in which Tony Meo was the runner-up).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He also gained titles at the 1984 Singapore Masters, where he also topped a round-robin group in which Davis was the runner-up;<ref name="CTONR">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the 1985 Hong Kong Masters, where he defeated Davis 4–2.<ref name="CTONR" /> The 1985–86 snooker season saw Griffiths win the Welsh Professional Championship for the first time after defeating Mountjoy 9–4.Template:Sfn He also won the 1986 Belgian Classic, where he saw off Kirk Stevens 9–7 in the final.<ref name="CTONR" />Template:Sfn

File:Llanelli - Terry Griffiths Matchroom viewed from the east (geograph 3054941).jpg
The Terry Griffiths Matchroom in Llanelli

His ranking had dropped to fourteenth in 1982/1983 when his 1979 points were no longer counted towards his total, which at the time was calculated purely on the basis of results of the preceding three world championships.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> He improved to ninth rank in 1983/1984, and was eighth for both 1984/1985 and 1985/1986 before falling to tenth for 1986/1987.Template:Sfn

Two months before the 1986 World Snooker Championship, Griffiths began working with coach Frank Callan.Template:Sfn After eliminating Higgins 13–12 in the last 16, he praised Callan for helping his game: "I tried to do the right things myself for three yearsTemplate:Nbsp... Frank has knitted it all together for me. I didn't think anyone knew that much about snooker."Template:Sfn He led eventual winner Johnson 12–9 in their quarter-final match, but Johnson won four consecutive frames, two with century breaks, for a 13–12 victory.Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He ended the season by winning the 1986 Pontins Professional, defeating Willie Thorne in the final.Template:Sfn

Griffiths was the only player to reach the televised stages of each ranking tournament in the 1986–87 season, but did not reach the semi-finals in any of them. At the end of the season, he moved up four places in the rankings to sixth.Template:Sfn He won the Welsh Professional Championship again in 1986, defeating Doug Mountjoy 9–3.<ref name="TGRET" />Template:Sfn In 1987, Griffiths opened a billiard hall: the Terry Griffiths Matchroom in Llanelli.Template:Sfn The next year, he won the 1988 Welsh Professional Championship final 9–3 against Wayne Jones.<ref name="TGRET" />Template:Sfn

At the 1988 World Snooker Championship, Griffiths defeated Steve Longworth, Willie Thorne, Neal Foulds and Jimmy White to reach his second world final, but lost 11–18 to defending champion Davis.<ref name="TGRET" />Template:Sfn The players had been level at 8–8 after the first of two days' play in the final, and Terry Smith of The Daily Telegraph said after the match: "Griffiths knows he produced his best snooker since he became world champion in 1979, and still lost."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The 1989 European Open was his only final the following season.Template:Sfn Although Griffiths won four of the first five frames, John Parrott tied the scores at 4–4 after the first session. Griffiths later led 8–7, but Parrott won the match (and his first major title) 9–8.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

1989–1997Edit

In the 1989–90 snooker season, Griffiths reached the semi-finals of the 1989 Asian Open and the 1989 UK Championship and the quarter-finals of the 1990 World Snooker Championship. His only final was in the 1989 Scottish Masters, where he lost 1–10 to Stephen Hendry. Griffiths dropped one place in the world rankings, to sixth, at the end of the season.Template:Sfn The following season, he was again runner-up to Hendry at the Scottish Masters; he had little success in other ranking events, however, and fell from sixth to eleventh place at the season's end.Template:Sfn

Griffiths moved back into sixth place after the 1991–92 season, during which he reached three ranking semi-finals, including that of the 1992 World Championship, where he scored victories over Bob Chaperon, Neal Foulds and Peter Ebdon before losing to Stephen Hendry.Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> His best performance at a ranking tournament the following season was the semi-final of the 1992 Grand Prix, which he lost 6–9 to Ken Doherty; his best showings at ranking tournaments over the next three seasons were a single quarter-final appearance in each.Template:Sfn

At the 1996 World Snooker Championship, Griffiths eliminated Jamie Burnett 10–9 in a first-round final-frame decider after trailing 0–6 and 5–9. In the second round, he lost to old rival Steve Davis (whom he never defeated at the Crucible in six attempts) and announced his retirement from the game to become the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association's Director of Coaching.<ref name="TGRET">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Griffiths retired at 23rd in the rankings (the first year since his debut season that he had not been in the top 16).<ref name="TGRET" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Clive Everton wrote that Griffiths was "the only player to retire when his standard was still in touch with the circuit's top players."Template:Sfn

At the 1997 World Championship, Griffiths came out of retirement, and won his qualifying match against Alfie Burden 10–4, to play in the main tournament at the Crucible one last time.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He led fellow countryman Mark Williams 9–8, but lost the next two frames, each on the final Template:Cuegloss, and was eliminated 9–10.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> During his professional career, he played a total of 999 frames at the Crucible.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In their book, Masters of the Baize, Luke Williams and Paul Gadsby wrote that Griffiths may have won more tournaments if he had not adjusted his playing technique to challenge Davis.Template:Sfn Gordon Burn reported in his 1986 book, Pocket Money, that Ray Reardon felt that Griffiths began to decline as a player after he signed a management contract with Barry Hearn (Davis's manager) at the end of the 1981–82 season and changes Griffiths made to his stance and cueing cost him his "natural flair".Template:Sfn Burn wrote that after Hearn became Griffiths's manager, "In the first year, Hearn tripled Griffiths's income and halved his work."Template:Sfn He quotes Griffiths: "I just found it difficult to accept that there was a better player than me in the world", but "I wasn't even getting at Steve Davis, because other players were beating me first."Template:Sfn Everton wrote about Griffiths's change of technique, "While he acquired an encyclopaedic technical knowledge in the process and maintained an admirable consistency, he could never quite recapture the flair and inspiration that had brought him the world title."<ref name="TGRET" /> As winner of the World Championship, UK Championship and Masters during his career, Griffiths achieved the snooker Triple Crown.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Later career, retirement and deathEdit

Griffiths resigned as the WPBSA director of coaching in 1998, describing the association as "a hopeless set-up with no one giving the staff any direction at all."Template:Sfn He coached a number of top players, including Mark Allen, Ali Carter, Ding Junhui, Marco Fu, Barry Hawkins, Stephen Hendry, Stephen Maguire, Joe Perry and Mark Williams.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="GURU">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Griffiths said about his coaching that "it used to be a lot of technical stuff years ago – probably 90% on the technical side. Now it's the other way about, perhaps 80–20% on the mental side."<ref name="GURU" /> He was the director of coaching at the South West Snooker Academy,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and a snooker commentator for the BBC.<ref name="WSTTG">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Griffiths received an OBE appointment in 2007 for his "services to snooker".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He launched "SQ", a handicapping system for snooker, in 2021.<ref name="SCMP" /> His son, Wayne Griffiths, is head snooker coach at the Hong Kong Sports Institute and has coached three-time women's world champion Ng On-yee.<ref name="SCMP">Template:Cite news</ref> During his career, Griffiths won over a million pounds in prize money.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

In 2024, his family announced that he had dementia.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> He died in his hometown of Llanelli, on 1 December 2024, at the age of 77.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Performance and rankings timelineEdit

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Ranking Template:Efn 8 5 3 14 9 8 8 10 6 5 5 6 11 6 8 14 15 23 Template:Sfn
Ranking tournaments
Asian ClassicTemplate:Efn Tournament Not Held NR A QF 2R QF 2R 2R QF A Template:Sfn
Grand PrixTemplate:Efn Tournament Not Held QF 3R 1R QF 3R 3R QF 1R 2R QF SF 1R 2R 1R A Template:Sfn
UK Championship Non-Ranking Event 1R QF 3R QF SF SF 2R 3R 1R QF 3R 2R A Template:Sfn
German Open Tournament Not Held 1R A Template:Sfn
Welsh Open Tournament Not Held 3R 2R 1R 1R 2R A Template:Sfn
International OpenTemplate:Efn Not Held NR QF SF 2R 3R 3R 2R 1R 2R Not Held 3R 3R 3R 1R A Template:Sfn
European Open Tournament Not Held F 1R 2R SF 2R 1R QF 2R A Template:Sfn
Thailand OpenTemplate:Efn Tournament Not Held Non-Ranking Event Not Held SF 1R 1R 1R 2R 1R 1R A Template:Sfn
British OpenTemplate:Efn NH Non-Ranking Event 2R QF 3R 2R 1R 2R 3R QF 1R 1R 1R 1R A Template:Sfn
World Championship W 2R QF 1R 2R QF QF QF QF F QF QF QF SF 2R 2R 2R 2R 1R Template:Sfn
Non-ranking tournaments
Scottish Masters Not Held A SF QF QF A A F NH F F A 1R A A A A Template:Sfn
Charity Challenge Tournament Not Held SF 1R A Template:Sfn
The Masters A W F F QF F SF QF 1R QF QF 1R SF 1R 1R 1R QF WR A Template:Sfn
Seniors Pot Black Tournament Not Held F <ref name="CTSPB">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Irish Masters A W W W SF F 1R 1R SF SF QF SF 1R 1R 1R 1R A A A Template:Sfn
Pontins Professional A QF W SF RR QF W W SF A A A A A A A A A A Template:Sfn
Matchroom LeagueTemplate:Efn Tournament Not Held A Not Held RR RR RR A A A A A A A A <ref>
Former ranking tournaments
Canadian MastersTemplate:Efn Non-Ranking Tournament Not Held Non-Ranking QF Tournament Not Held Template:Sfn
Hong Kong Open|Template:Efn NH Ranking Event NH 2R Tournament Not Held Ranking NH Template:Sfn
Classic NH Non-Ranking Event QF QF 1R QF QF 3R 1R 1R 3R Tournament Not Held Template:Sfn
Strachan Open Tournament Not Held 2R MR NR Not Held Template:Sfn
Former non-ranking tournaments
Champion of Champions A NH RR Tournament Not Held <ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
International OpenTemplate:Efn Not Held QF Ranking Event Not Held Ranking Event Template:Sfn
Northern Ireland Classic Not Held SF Tournament Not Held Template:Sfn
Classic NH SF QF W 1R Ranking Event Tournament Not Held Template:Sfn
Tolly Cobbold Classic A SF A A F A Ranking Event Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
UK Championship 1R F SF F W SF Ranking Event Template:Sfn
British OpenTemplate:Efn NH RR RR F 2R 2R Ranking Event Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Singapore Masters Tournament Not Held W F Tournament Not Held <ref name="CTONR" />
KitKat Break for World Champions Tournament Not Held SF Tournament Not Held Template:Sfn
Belgian Classic Tournament Not Held W Tournament Not Held <ref name="CTONR" />
Australian MastersTemplate:Efn NH A A A A A A A SF A NH R Tournament Not Held A A NH Template:Sfn
Malaysian Masters Tournament Not Held W NH QF Tournament Not Held A <ref name="CTONR" /><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
China Masters Tournament Not Held A F Tournament Not Held A <ref name="CTONR" />
Tokyo Masters Tournament Not Held F Tournament Not Held <ref name="CTONR" />
Canadian MastersTemplate:Efn A F F Tournament Not Held QF A QF R Tournament Not Held Template:Sfn
Asian ClassicTemplate:Efn Tournament Not Held QF Ranking Event Template:Sfn
Template:Nowrap Tournament Not Held SF 1R QF Tournament Not Held Template:Sfn
London Masters Tournament Not Held QF A A Tournament Not Held <ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
International League Tournament Not Held RR Tournament Not Held <ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Norwich Union Grand Prix Tournament Not Held SF A QF Tournament Not Held Template:Sfn
European Grand Masters Tournament Not Held QFTemplate:Efn Tournament Not Held <ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="CWMC">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
World Masters Tournament Not Held QF Tournament Not Held Template:Sfn
Template:Nowrap NH SF SF F SF SF W W SF W F QF QF Tournament Not Held Template:Sfn
Thailand Masters Tournament Not Held SF F F F Not Held Ranking 2R Ranking Event <ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

}}</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Hong Kong ChallengeTemplate:Efn Tournament Not Held F QF W SF QF QF NH 1R 1R Tournament Not Held Template:Sfn<ref name="CTONR" />
Indian Challenge Tournament Not Held 1R Tournament Not Held <ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Template:Nowrap Tournament Not Held SF Tournament Not Held <ref name="SEN91">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Belgian Challenge Tournament Not Held QF Tournament Not Held <ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Kent ClassicTemplate:Efn Tournament Not Held QF A A A A NH SF Tournament Not Held <ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Belgian Masters Tournament Not Held QF A 1R Not Held A NH Template:Sfn
World Matchplay Tournament Not Held QF QF SF QF 1R Not Held Template:Sfn
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Performance Table Legend
#R lost in the early rounds of the tournament
(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin) 		QF lost in the quarter-finals SF lost in the semi-finals
F lost in the final W won the tournament A did not participate in the tournament
?? no reliable source available
NH / Not Held means an event was not held.
NR / Non-Ranking Event means an event is/was no longer a ranking event.
R / Ranking Event means an event is/was a ranking event.

Career finalsEdit

Sources for the ranking and non-ranking final results can be found in the Performance timeline section above.

Ranking finals: 3 (1 title)Edit

Legend
World Championship (1–1)
Other (0–1)
Ranking tournament finals contested by Terry Griffiths
Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final Score
Winner 1. 1979 World Championship Template:Flagathlete 24–16
Runner-up 1. 1988 World Championship Template:Flagathlete 11–18
Runner-up 2. 1989 European Open Template:Flagathlete 8–9

Non-ranking finals: 40 (17 titles)Edit

Legend
UK Championship (1–2)Template:Efn
The Masters (1–3)
Other (15–19)
Non-ranking tournament finals contested by Terry Griffiths
Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final Score
Runner-up 1. 1979 Canadian Open Template:Flagathlete 16–17
Runner-up 2. 1979 UK Championship Template:Flagathlete 13–14
Winner 1. 1980 The Masters Template:Flagathlete 9–5
Winner 2. 1980 Irish Masters Template:Flagathlete 10–9
Runner-up 3. 1980 Canadian Open (2) Template:Flagathlete 10–17
Runner-up 4. 1981 The Masters Template:Flagathlete 6–9
Winner 3. 1981 Irish Masters (2) Template:Flagathlete 9–7
Winner 4. 1981 Pontins Professional Template:Flagathlete 9–8
Runner-up 5. 1981 UK Championship (2) Template:Flagathlete 3–16
Winner 5. 1982 The Classic Template:Flagathlete 9–8
Runner-up 6. 1982 The Masters (2) Template:Flagathlete 5–9
Runner-up 7. 1982 Welsh Professional Championship Template:Flagathlete 8–9
Runner-up 8. 1982 International Masters Template:Flagathlete 7–9
Winner 6. 1982 Irish Masters (3) Template:Flagathlete 9–5
Winner 7. 1982 UK Championship Template:Flagathlete 16–15
Runner-up 9. 1983 Tolly Cobbold Classic Template:Flagathlete 5–7
Runner-up 10. 1983 Hong Kong Masters Template:Flagathlete 3–4
Winner 8. 1984 Pot Black Template:Flagathlete 2–1
Runner-up 11. 1984 The Masters (3) Template:Flagathlete 5–9
Runner-up 12. 1984 Irish Masters Template:Flagathlete 1–9
Runner-up 13. 1984 Thailand Masters Template:Flagathlete 3–4
Winner 9. 1984 Malaysian Masters Template:Flagathlete Template:NowrapTemplate:Efn
Winner 10. 1984 Singapore Masters Template:Flagathlete Template:NowrapTemplate:Efn
Winner 11. 1985 Welsh Professional Championship Template:Flagathlete 9–4
Winner 12. 1985 Pontins Professional (2) Template:Flagathlete 9–7
Winner 13. 1985 Hong Kong Masters Template:Flagathlete 4–2
Runner-up 14. 1985 Thailand Masters (2) Template:Flagathlete 0–4
Runner-up 15. 1985 Singapore Masters Template:Flagathlete 2–4
Winner 14. 1986 Belgian Classic Template:Flagathlete 9–7
Winner 15. 1986 Template:Nowrap Template:Flagathlete 9–3
Winner 16. 1986 Pontins Professional (3) Template:Flagathlete 9–6
Runner-up 16. 1986 Thailand Masters (3) Template:Flagathlete 1–2
Runner-up 17. 1986 China Masters Template:Flagathlete 0–3
Runner-up 18. 1987 Tokyo Masters Template:Flagathlete 3–6
Runner-up 19. 1987 Scottish Masters Template:Flagathlete 7–9
Winner 17. 1988 Welsh Professional Championship (3) Template:Flagathlete 9–3
Runner-up 20. 1989 Welsh Professional Championship (2) Template:Flagathlete 6–9
Runner-up 21. 1989 Scottish Masters (2) Template:Flagathlete 1–10
Runner-up 22. 1990 Scottish Masters (3) Template:Flagathlete 6–10
Runner-up 23. 1997 Seniors Pot Black Template:Flagathlete 0–2

Team finals: 5 (2 titles)Edit

Team finals contested by Terry Griffiths
Outcome No. Year Championship Team/partner Opponent(s) in the final Score Template:Abbr
Winner 1. 1979 World Challenge Cup Template:Flagcountry Template:Flagcountry 14–3 Template:Sfn
Winner 2. 1980 World Challenge Cup (2) Template:Flagcountry Template:Flagcountry 8–5 Template:Sfn
Runner-up 1. 1981 World Team Classic Template:Flagcountry Template:Flagcountry 3–4 Template:Sfn
Runner-up 2. 1982 World Doubles Championship Template:Flagathlete Template:Flagathlete and Template:Flagathlete 2–13 Template:Sfn
Runner-up 3. 1983 World Team Classic (2) Template:Flagcountry Template:Flagcountry 2–4 Template:Sfn

Pro-am finals: 2 (1 title)Edit

Pro-am finals contested by Terry Griffiths
Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final Score Template:Abbr
Runner-up 1. 1977 Pontins Spring Open Template:Flagathlete 4–7 Template:Sfn
Winner 1. 1983 Pontins Spring Open Template:Flagathlete 7–3 Template:Sfn

Amateur finals: 4 (3 titles)Edit

Amateur finals contested by Terry Griffiths
Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final Score Template:Abbr
Runner-up 1. 1972 Welsh Amateur Championship Template:Flagathlete 2–6 <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Winner 1. 1975 Welsh Amateur Championship Template:Flagathlete 8–7 Template:Sfn
Winner 2. 1977 English Amateur Championship Template:Flagathlete 13–3 Template:Sfn
Winner 3. 1978 English Amateur Championship (2) Template:Flagathlete 13–6 Template:Sfn

PublicationsEdit

Year Title Authors Publisher ISBN
1981 Championship Snooker Terry Griffiths with Clive Everton Queen Anne Press, London Template:Isbn
1984 Complete Snooker Terry Griffiths with Julian Worthington Pelham, London Template:Isbn
1989 Griff : the Autobiography of Terry Griffiths Terry Griffiths with Julian Worthington Pelham, London Template:Isbn

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